History tells us that the astute observations of Issac Newton, in relation to a particular apple he watched fall to the Earth long ago, ultimately let to the foundations of what became mankind’s understanding of gravity and the forces exerted by objects against one another in the universe. Since Newton first questioned what might have “pulled” fruit from the branches of trees, other similar questions have been pondered. For instance, do apples and oranges fall the same speed, or differently? Is the rate of speed at which they fall the only difference in how gravity might affect them? Even stranger, does the time of the year affect these differences (after all, Newton’s apple feel in August of 1666; what if he had witnessed it falling in the spring of that same year… not that the difference would likely have been perceptible)?

According to New Scientist Magazine, such questions might seem like peculiar concerns, but Indiana University’s Alan Kostelecký feels these are indeed valid things worthy of further pondering. “He and his graduate student Jay Tasson have found that such flagrant violations of our best theory of gravity could easily have evaded detection for centuries,” New Scientist reports.

Does gravity change with the seasons?

Keep in mind that, in terms of exactly what gravity is, we’re still more or less left out in the blue. Perhaps pondering such things, whether or not they are correct in totality, will help separate the “wheat from the chaff” enough to render new possibilities. Who knows… a definitive source of anti-gravity could be the result!